I played a bunch of Head to Head matchups at Parx and Presque Isle yesterday. Won most of them. Of course Thask kicked my ass in the one we played. I'm used to that.
I hit a nice $11.00 horse in the last at Parx to sweep my matches. I always knew even though I was trailing in several at Presque Isle I could hit the last there and do well because I used a horse named Little Matt that was 30-1 on the morning line. This turned out to be very interesting. First they announce a jockey change to Jose Bracho. I knew 30-1 was crazy. So when he opened at 10-1 it made perfect sense. During the entire betting he never went lower than 9-1 or higher than 13-1. As he walked into the gate he was 11-1. He breaks like a shot and goes right to the front. He's nicely in the lead turning into the backstretch and for the first time they put up the running order numbers. He was
9/2!. I was on a rental car shuttle watching the race on my phone so the picture was blurry. I assumed it was 9-1. No!
9/2 He gallops. Wins by 4 and it wasn't that close. I know we've all seen late odds drops. Happens. But this was intense. The only plausible explanation is Thask bet a couple dimes on him to make his price go so far down it wouldn't be enough for me to catch him in our $55.00 head to head match.
Well played Thasky!
